eCryptfs: NULL pointer dereference in ecryptfs_send_miscdev()
If data is NULL, msg_ctx->msg is set to NULL and then dereferenced
afterwards. ecryptfs_send_raw_message() is the only place that
ecryptfs_send_miscdev() is called with data being NULL, but the only
caller of that function (ecryptfs_process_helo()) is never called. In
short, there is currently no way to trigger the NULL pointer
dereference.
This patch removes the two unused functions and modifies
ecryptfs_send_miscdev() to remove the NULL dereferences.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
index dda3c58..4ec8f61 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
@@ -193,26 +193,20 @@
int rc = 0;
mutex_lock(&msg_ctx->mux);
- if (data) {
- msg_ctx->msg = kmalloc((sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!msg_ctx->msg) {
- rc = -ENOMEM;
- printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst attempting "
- "to kmalloc(%zd, GFP_KERNEL)\n", __func__,
- (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size));
- goto out_unlock;
- }
- } else
- msg_ctx->msg = NULL;
+ msg_ctx->msg = kmalloc((sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size),
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!msg_ctx->msg) {
+ rc = -ENOMEM;
+ printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst attempting "
+ "to kmalloc(%zd, GFP_KERNEL)\n", __func__,
+ (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size));
+ goto out_unlock;
+ }
msg_ctx->msg->index = msg_ctx->index;
msg_ctx->msg->data_len = data_size;
msg_ctx->type = msg_type;
- if (data) {
- memcpy(msg_ctx->msg->data, data, data_size);
- msg_ctx->msg_size = (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size);
- } else
- msg_ctx->msg_size = 0;
+ memcpy(msg_ctx->msg->data, data, data_size);
+ msg_ctx->msg_size = (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size);
mutex_lock(&daemon->mux);
list_add_tail(&msg_ctx->daemon_out_list, &daemon->msg_ctx_out_queue);
daemon->num_queued_msg_ctx++;
